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It may be demand destruction causing the drop in price but it is more likely to be part of the series price spikes to be expected during the plateau phase of peak oil.

The other factor here is the ...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. GDP is a measure of the numbers the creators of the statistic care to include or more importantly exclude.

...No one will nuke the other...

Hope you are right. Its just that desperate people do stupid things. Curious as to your thoughts on the probability of conventional wars. If the current poll is any ...

But I still get some resistance on it meaning Global War. I don't want a war but if history is anything to go by it will happen. My only uncertainity is how many nukes get traded.

And this is only the beginning Sad

Opening this thread as a collection point for links and statistics on other resources that are reaching peak for example Helium.

http://www.energybulletin.net/34563.html
http://stickweld.com/inter ...

Impractical as it may currently be I get an extremely faint glimmer of hope from concepts like Gross National Happiness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness rather than Gross National ...

Interesting change of direction for this thread. But in many ways still on topic as those who do not to believe in their obligations under the social contract implicit in paying your taxes are also un ...

In response to JC_Tyler's comments.

I guess for me, as an uber-doomer it comes down to:

If we don't change and soon the we are all going to die or at least an awful lot of us will.

Unfortuna ...

... In order to live we need to consume...

Yes but do I need to continually increase my level of consumption to prosper?

Continuing study about the various aspects of peak oil and population overshoot inevitably leads me to the following conclusion.

Anyone who proposes continual growth is your enemy and the enemy of ...

And Joe Sixpack will be there cheering the Prez on. Fargin' Canucks how dare they stop him from drivin' his SUV.

Actually, there's probably more SUVs and big trucks in Canada per capita, than in th ...

And Joe Sixpack will be there cheering the Prez on. Fargin' Canucks how dare they stop him from drivin' his SUV.

So what's that say about the incumbent bunch of nodding donkeys!
That they know who their major contributors are.

Slash and burn is bad but that doesn't sound like what you are up to in that you are growing a different set of trees.

As for the wood turn it into chips and use it as mulch. If you have some bare ...